2 Trade and exchange as a framework for integrationChair: Haskel Greenfield

APAAK, Clement A: The salt trade in northern Ethiopia

BELDADOS, Alemseged: The Agordat materials and their implications for early food production and regional contact

MAGNAVITA, Sonja: Contacts between the Niger Bend region and the wider world since Late Roman times: the evidence from Kissi, Burkina Faso

CHAMI, Felix: Rethinking the culture history of the islands, the coast and the hinterland of East Africa

OKA, Rahul C: Local desires, global preferences and cosmopolitan elites in the Indian Ocean economy: comparing the role of Chinese prestige wares in the development of trade between East Africa and South Asia

WOOD, Marilee: The development of a glass bead sequence for southern Africa in the Islamic Period